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brown owl
n. (context UK English) the tawny owl, ''strix aluco''.
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Brown Owl (disambiguation)
Brown Owl is a synonym for the tawny owl. It may also refer to:
- a title often given to the adult pack leader in Girlguiding UK
- Brown Owl, New Zealand, a suburb of Upper Hutt, New Zealand
Usage examples of "brown owl".
It had attacked Anla, and was, even now, driving the brown owl toward the ground.
There was a restless shifting of wings from above and a large brown owl snapped his beak in a menacing fashion.
The brown owl that Harry had sent to Sirius with the dates of the Hogsmeade weekend turned up at breakfast on Friday morning with half its feathers sticking up the wrong way.
What appeared to be a stuffed brown owl, not much bigger than Egwene's hand, stood on what seemed to be a bleached white lizard's skull, but could not be, for the skull was longer than her arm and had crooked teeth as big as her fingers.